Dispensing container



June 13, 1950 J. o. LUNDBERG DISPENSING CONTAINER Filed Dec. 20, 1946JNVENTOR. JACOB OTTO LUNDBEKG BY J ATTORNEY Patented June 13, 1950UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE Application December 20, 1946, Serial No.717,540 In Sweden June 25, 1946 1 Claim.

The present invention relates to those dispensing containers whichconsist of a band of paper, cardboard or the like which surrounds thestacked pile of paper in a housing and is open in the sides and has aslit or an opening in the front wall through which the paper can betaken out. In order to prevent the paper pile from gliding out throughthe open sides the container according to the invention is cut up somedistance upwards in the lower part of the rear (or front) wall of thehousing at both sides so that a flap has been formed which is coherentwith the rest of the band at the top and at the bottom, said flap beingabout in the middle provided with an (or more) indication of folding inthe transverse direction in the form of folding lines, perforations orthe like, in order that, when a paper-bundle has been inserted in thecontainer, the flaps shall have a tendency to assume either of twopositions, one of which is such that the flap prevents the paperpilefrom gliding.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Fig.1 is a rear view of an embodiment of the object of the invention. Fig. 2is a corresponding side view, the inserted paper pile consisting offolded sheets of paper placed side by side. Fig. 3 is a correspondingside view, the inserted paper pile consisting of folded sheets of paperinserted in each other. Fig. 4 is a side view of a somewhat modifiedembodiment.

In Figs. 1-3 the reference numeral I indicates a band of thick paper,which is folded over at the top, the ends 2, 3 of said band areconnected with each other by means of clip locks 4 known per se. Thepaper band I is provided with folding lines 5, 6, I, 8 so that thecontainer has a rhombic cross section. In the front wall there is anopening 9, through which sheets of paper II] from a pile stacked in thecontainer can be taken out.

In the lower part of the rear wall of the container near the sides II,II the paper band I is, according to the invention, cut up some distanceupwards from the lower folding line I coherent flaps I2 have been formedat the top and at the bottom. Said flaps are provided with transversefolding lines I3, I4 so that when a paper-pile is inserted in thecontainer, the flaps can easily assume the shown positions in which theyprevent the paper-pile from gliding towards the sides. In the embodimentshown in Fig. 4 only the flaps I3 are provided with folding lines I5,I6, II, while the band I has no folding lines for the rest, and when apaper-pile is inserted in the same, it assumes a drop-like form insection.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letter Patent is:

In a dispensing container for a stack of sheets of paper formed from asingle blank of foldable material bent to provide a housing including abottom, top, front and rear walls, the upper free edge portions of thefront and rear walls being secured together in face contacting relation,whereby the housing is open only at its ends, the front wall having anarea defined by a weakened line which may be removed to provide anopening therein adjacent the bottom through which the sheets of papermay be singly removed from the stack within the housing, the endportions of the rear wall and bottom of the housing being slit along aline parallel to and spaced inwardly of the side edges of the bottom andrear wall to form integral angular flaps at the ends of the housing toengage the respective side edges of the stack of paper sheets in thehousing to prevent lateral sliding movement of the stack of sheets inthe housing.

JACOB OTTO LUNDBERG.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file ofthis patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,686,458 McColl Oct. 2, 19281,985,075 Bird Dec. 18, 1934

